Possible Transformers DOTM Legend Class Figures Appear!

The NASCAR bot has a mullet!

Personally i'm not even convinced that's a DOTM character...i think it's just some random bot that probably only got sold out there...

Soundwave1979 wrote:Personally i'm not even convinced that's a DOTM character...i think it's just some random bot that probably only got sold out there...

I'm inclined to agree with you. The Nascar bot appears to have similar "hair" as the bot that everyone made so much fuss over in the trailer, yet it has none of the heavy weapons/armor that the "leaked" pics of the 3 race cars showed. I'm more of the opinion that this and the SUV are something conjured up by a KO manufacturer looking to make quick money off the hype.

zodconvoy wrote:The NASCAR bot has a mullet!

Billy Ray Cybertron?

cant wait for the deluxe nascars (im guessing deluxe)
too bad it missing the guns and stuff but it is a legends now anyone see mirage in the nascar though MB doesnt care about g1 at all

Not to nitpick, but it's incorrect to say "a NASCAR" or "the NASCAR" when referring to a vehicle. NASCAR is an acronym that stands for "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing." So it's actually correct to say "a NASCAR car."

Well, for one, this kinda proves that the now-known "Wreckers" are indeed Autobots. As for the Decepti-SUV... either Stockade reborn or Soundwave. And what a coin-key-dink, they both start with an S!

Interesting how the got the "real" logos on the NASCAR... car.

The SUV Con has a Blackout/Grindor vibe to it. I wonder if any/all other SUV Cons will just be duplicates or if they'll each get unique robot modes. It'd be interesting to see the same vehicle transform in totally different ways.

Okay...gotta say this, and I'm gonna be polite about it, because there's no need to be negative about it. G1 is over. The cartoon ended in the late 80s. The toyline ended 20 or more years ago. I grew up with the cartoon and the toys and the comic books, too. I still have several G1 toys and even the first 40 or so issues of the comic book. I got a few seasons of the cartoon on DVD, and frankly, I don't see how it appeals to anyone but kids now, but I understand how it's a part of many Seibertronians childhoods, as it is mine.

But I don't quite understand absolute G1 purists. Sure, Devastator isn't green and purple and now looks like he's made up of actual construction vehicles instead of random blocks of green metal. Okay, Elita-1 is a purple motorcycle rather than a pink boat-thing. Soundwave turns into a futuristic satellite rather than a small, anachronistic blue tape deck with a cannon on his shoulder and turns into a 20 foot tall robot. It's okay! Things don't need to be exactly like the G1 cartoon series to be good.

Personally, I find the movieverse aesthetic really great. It's nice to see vehicles that don't change size and robot modes that actually look robotic and alien, or like they were actually formed from the parts of their alternate mode. That's what got me interested in the franchise again as an adult. It was a world I enjoyed as a kid, re-imagined as a more realistic looking movie and toys. So what if Ironhide isn't red? Would purists rather see him as a red minivan like he was in G1? What kid nowdays is gonna root for a minivan? Their personalities are still fairly similar (save for Ratchet's), their functions (Ironhide as field general/weapons specialist, Ratchet as medic, Starscream as groveling sycophant, Megatron as a calculating tyrant) are still the same. Just because they have a different, MORE REALISTIC, vehicle/alternate mode and are a different color than their counterparts of more than two decades ago, it doesn't make them horrible.

Yes! They got the NASCAR and Lowe's licenses for the stock cars. The Jimmie Johnson car looks very good for a legends class, and it's shockingly accurate to the actual Chevy Impala NASCAR body. The Dread drone looks interesting too. I can't tell if it's a licensed Chevy Suburban though.
Hopefully we'll see deluxe NASCARs and a deluxe Dread soon.